The Fool Pathway,
It is a pathway all about snooping around and finding out. They pursue control by means of orchestration and the discovery of secrets. The fooling part comes from not only finding out but not getting found out, to not fall for tomfoolery and fooling others.
It's how a fool is seen, to be a fool but not really be one, that's a symbol of deception in itself. Had no one ever known the pathway beforehand, they'd be unintelligible and wouldn't be able to discern the hidden meaning behind it, set aside as a thought of banter and only mere surface wonder.
As an anecdote of a Fool, we get to see Klein Moretti, whose who life symbolizes the journey of a fool. It gives parallelisms to tarot symbolisms. Klein had to embrace the unknown and take leaps of faith time and time again, risking his life again and again, having child-like innocence and enthusiasm as he discovers the world of mysticism like all readers would feel like reading from his lenses. From his common and humble beginnings we see him keeping his ideals in a wretched world, pursuing freedom from thence.
His love for food and delicacy shows his freedom. His ideal of going back home is so innocent if we think about it now. And his mpooning actually exhibits this spontaneity we would from a flippant fool.
These are all upright meanings that embody the pathway's character and the reversed can be said to be true too.
Naivety, Distraction, Foolishness, Stupidity, Recklessness, Gullible, and Stuck in a Comfort Zone. We feel it too!
Ah, imagine just how naive it was, to be so self assured of safety until things hit the fan, danger creeps until it pounces when the fool is unaware. The rueful feeling when it all comes crashing down, as a step on the edge of the cliff brings us to fatal tragedy.
Innocence may have saves Klein from divining the descent of the Hanged Man in the baby but it's also the selfsame Naivety that costed the old man.
Truly one can see how foolish it is as times when times of death were merely intervened upon the Grey Fog. How divining gods would seem like child's py until it wasn't. How a suspect turns witch got away under his nose, oh how gullible against Amon's deceit!
Which is why Klein had to learn, had to discover the whole picture of things, when his mere character as fool was once strength soon became weakness, had to be changed for the better. A better fool, a Fool that looked to be one but wasn't.
Ah, I rambling too much in my writing. Let me continue...
So the personality....now the, yes, the Pathway itself.
Alongside Door and Error, we get to see that the Fool pathway deals in deception like them all, Door and Error but I believe they all have their unique type of deception.
For now I will tell you that the Fool's deception is misdirection, which is opposed to a Door's tricks and an Error's deceit.
To give more context while all three hold the meaning of deception, I purely chose them as words to distinguish, as it is not ever true that a Fool can't deceive or trick people by dubious means. It is just that a Fool's arsenal, in terms of their pathway bely the art of deception lined in misdirection.
There are key factors to this deception, misdirection is can easily be done without you needing to be there, simply it is a deception presented as it is and interpretations made by anyone who encounter it will be mislead.
This is why there is a Marionettist that can do things behind the scene as it presents it's cast, as is, and is able to mislead people very easily.
This Misdirection is part of the three Deceptions that embody the Mystery of Lord of the Mysteries.
For what is a mystery if that it could not be understood? It's even better a mystery if one were to attempt understanding it and be decieved!
Am I being deceived right now just by writing down my understanding of it? Pizza!
Anyway, outside of any context of neighboring beyonder Pathways. There is still the Fool Pathway's connection to the Lord of the Mysteries.
Now what is that mystery? What does the fool embody so much as a mystery?
Officially, their authority represents Secrets and Changes, which makes sense. This is why there is so much of the Fool's authority over the Spirit World, Fog of History, and Fate. It feels like a knockout when you comprehend that they have so much authority over a lot of things, but it's all interconnected.
A Fool can be whatever it wants to be and can make people believe what it is because it's the fool, his journey represents the Fog of History and it can be whatever he writes it to be. Fate is always intertwined with him who undergoes changes and the Spirit World is the embodiment of his secrets.
Yes, I believe the Fog of History may embody the Fool's Journey and is a main component of the fool, after all it's the grayish-white fog of the Sefirah Castle. From there they reside inside the Spirit World which by corretion connects to Fate. This is because why the Spirit World can represent Secrets and Fate can represent Change, the Historical Void represents both.
It's power to reveal the secrets of the past and jam with the future, changing fate. It makes me chuckle madly in recognition.
It's a bit like the Wheel of Fortune Pathway for Changes and the Hanged Man Pathway for Secrets.
But they have their distinctions, Wheel of Fortune is not Change, it's Possibility or what I like to call Chance, from while a Fool tampers and changes fate, a Wheel of Fortune grabs the Possibility from the Chaos of possibilities.
As for Hanged Man, let's not talk about a Door's Secrets Sorcerer, let alone the Darkness' Concealment. The Secrets of a Fool is all about discovery and hiding it as a mystery but a Hanged Man's Secrets is a burden of silence, they don't discover but are supplied with secrets, which they are burdened to take to either take to their graves or present these secrets within their judgement.
Hm, yes, I think I've written enough. Now it's time to take you through the Pathway and it's sequences.